American State Papers

An Amateur's Comments

1. The American State Papers section of this book, from the Great Books of the Western World collection, contains the following:
   • Declaration of Independence
   • Articles of Confederation
   • The Constitution

2. The middle part of the book is The Federalist, by Alexander Hamilton (1757-1804), James Madison (1751-1836), and John Jay (1745-1829).

3. The final part of the book is a collection of essays by John Stuart Mill (1806-1873):
   • On Liberty (1859)
   • Representative Government (1861)
   • Utilitarianism (1863)

References found on the World Wide Web:

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• Declaration of Independence
  A page from the National Archives and Records Administration that reproduces the text.
  

• Documents from the Continental Congress and Constitutional Convention (1774-1789)
  A series of pages from the Library of Congress.
  

• About the Federalist Papers
  Summary: The Federalist, commonly referred to as the Federalist Papers, is a series of 85 essays written by Alexander Hamilton, John Jay, and James Madison between October 1787 and May 1788. For this reason, and because Hamilton and Madison were each members of the Constitutional Convention, the Federalist Papers are often used today to help interpret the intentions of….
  

• John Stuart Mill
  Summary: On Liberty by John Stuart Mill appears here in HTML text with an index which allows you to view and read each individual chapter separately. Index | NE203 Syllabus | NE203 Topics | IDP Topics | Glossary | Comments |. Created by David Tomlinson. This page also contains references to the text of Representative Government and Utilitarianism.

• THOMAS--Legislative Information on the Internet
  A comprehensive site by the Library of Congress that contains not only historical document references, but also a wealth of information about the U.S. Legislature, including all the members of both houses of congress and their current work and The Congressional Record.

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